This happens in large corporate offices where computer technicians frequently upgrade and maintain computers.

At the end of the story, the computer technicians are reflecting that the program must have just about run its course.

They include self-employed or freelance marketing consultants, computer technicians, actors and artists in their 20s and 30s.

He and other tricksters pretend to be computer technicians and ring vulnerable people telling them they need to fix a fault on their machine.

A computer technician was convicted of three counts of obtaining access to a computer with dishonest intent, and received a custodial sentence of eight and a half months.